Light Cycle

[Aquattro]

Dawn/dusk actinic on at 8am, off at 12:00 am. Halides on from 1:30pm to 9:00pm.

[Marmot74]

3 Hours Moonlight (6am-9am)
3 Hours T5 (9am-12pm)
6 Hours T5 & MH (12pm-6pm)
3 Hours T5 (6pm-9pm)
3 Hours Moonlight (9pm-12am)
6 Hours Total Darkness (12am-6am)

Seems to work well for and gives lots of different viewing modes

Mike

[steve fedyk]

2 hour dawn, 7 1/2 hour daylight, 1 1/2 dusk with moonlight

[RSM]

Actinic on 6:30 am
MH on at 2 pm, off at 8 pm
Actinic off at 10pm
24hr Moon lights

[JohnnyReeftank]

10 am - Actinic + Aquapink on
11 am - Actinic and White on
9 pm - Actinic and white off
10 pm - Actinic and Aquapink off

So 1 hour for dawn and dusk and 10 hours of full spectrum. I like using the Aquapink in my dawn/dusk......seems more like a sunrise/sunset IMO

[Aquattro]

I see a definite trend here with daylight. It seems most people are at 8 hours or less, myself included. 5+ years ago, a similar poll would typically show 10 to 12 hours of daylight. I think we're seeing a lot nicer tanks now with reduced photoperiods.

[Patty-Brent]

I run blue LEDs for an hour as dawn then daylight for 10 hours then 2 hours of blue LEDs as dusk

[Bblinks]

Dawn at 10:00am pc1, 10:30am pc2, 2:00pm mh1, 2:30pm mh2, 3:00pm mh3, till 7:59pm full daylight, 8:00pm mh1 off, 8:30pm mh2 off, 9:00pm mh3 off, 10:30pm pc1 off at the same time sump refugium light on, 11:00pm pc2 off, led night light is always on.

[MitchM]

I didn't see anybody mention adapting for the lunar cycle.
Is anyone doing that?

[AquaticFinatic]

I have the illumina so I have 3 hour sunrise 7 hours of day light 3 hour sunset then the lunar cycle for night time. Im thinking of cutting down my day duration as it maybe a little long. I also have 6 cloud periods a day with a 5% chance of lightning!